Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [art] last " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we hit the bar as well , so it goes to the ninetieth minute does n't it , that 's what it is , a fifteen round fight goes to the last second does n't it as some boxers have found out . |
| 2 | Shoemaking with CAD starts with a last marked with a grid and clamped in a digitizer . |
| 3 | Competitively , snooker has until the last few years been confined to Britain and its old Commonwealth , but there have always been a few tables in the Far East , catering for the needs of expats . |
| 4 | The most popular period for BES investment occurs in the last three months of the tax year as investors begin to think about reducing tax liabilities ; the early autumn sees a second surge as investors can claim up to half the tax relief for the previous year on investments made before 6 October ( subject to a maximum of £5,000 ) . |
| 5 | A catalogue of disorderly incidents have occurred at baseball matches in the last two decades . |
| 6 | In line with other insurance companies , the group announced lower bonus rates for its life assurance and pensions schemes in response to poorer investment returns over the last few years . |
| 7 | The most egregious case occurs in the last entrée , in which |
| 8 | The IRA 's bombing campaign cost the taxpayer a staggering £102.5m in compensation claims over the last 12 months . |
| 9 | The IRA 's bombing campaign cost the taxpayer a staggering £102.5m in compensation claims over the last 12 months . |
| 10 | In the years when no rain occurs between the last spraying of the vine and the harvest , the first sixty-five litres of the cuvée will often be tapped off and added to the taille . |
| 11 | He added that no household-name company had escaped making job cuts over the last two years . |
| 12 | We have made a survey of the overall mortgage costs in the last one , three and five years . |
| 13 | His confidence stems from the last two victories . |
| 14 | Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it . |
| 15 | In most opinion reports from the last months of the war , there is little or no mention of the Führer and the attitudes of the population towards him . |
| 16 | ‘ A lot of shareholders have turned down generous takeover bids over the last few years and have regretted it , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Although there is no evidence , at present , of drinking water being contaminated in Britain , many reservoirs and lakes have had algal blooms on their surface waters for the last two summers . |
| 18 | Their 1st runs at the end of 1981 were witnessed by scenes not seen since the end of steam when literally thousands either embarked on farewell trips or crowded platform ends for a last glimpse of the 3,300hp machines that were as popular as the LNER Gresley steam Pacifics they replaced . |
| 19 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |
| 20 | Summaries of the kitchen accounts for the last ten years , for instance . ’ |
| 21 | The predominant key of the opera is D minor , a sombre key with overtones of night and death ; while the dramatic scenes in the graveyard and at Giovanni 's last supper-party , when the statue appears for the last time , are reinforced with funereal-sounding trombones . |
| 22 | If the debtor has within the last five years been bankrupt , made a composition with his creditors , been subject to a county court administration order or entered into a voluntary arrangement , particulars must be given including the name and address of the supervisor ( r6.39(2) ) . |
| 23 | FT-SE 100 futures have a maximum life of nine months , and most of the volume occurs in the last four months of the contract 's life . |
| 24 | Robson 's team have yet to concede a goal in their five World Cup qualifying matches and one more clean sheet when the whistle blows on the last , in Chorzow tomorrow evening , will put them in the finals . |
| 25 | In the Dodds case the House of Lords stated that if the month in which the period expires has no corresponding date because it is too short , the period given by the notice ends on the last day of that month , ie 28 February or 29 February in a leap year . |
| 26 | The inaugural exhibition concentrates on the last six years of the artist 's life . |
| 27 | Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maiolica has in the last few years returned to popularity ( the recent exhibition of the maiolica collections of the Metropolitan Museum was regularly crowded , to the amazement of Met officials ) , though most of its present day collectors are Italian . |
| 28 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 29 | There follows deep , sluggish water , a very serpentine course between high banks , a 2.5 mile slog to Balnaan Bridge where the flow quickens for the last 100 yds to the modern , single , wet arch . |
| 30 | The state intervenes as a last resort or safety net when parenting leads to dangerous or inadequate levels of child care . |